Sunday, October 15, 2017

Bob Seger is streaming audio of his cover of Lou Reed’s 1989 track, “Busload Of Faith”, as a preview to the November 17 release of his latest album, “I Knew You When.”

Recorded in Nashville and Detroit and produced by Seger, the project is the follow-up to 2014’s “Ride Out”, which marked the singer’s highest US chart debut when that record entered the Billboard 200 at No. 3.

Alongside the Reed cover, the standard 10-track edition of “I Knew You When” delivers eight Seger originals and his take on Leonard Cohen’s 1992 song, “Democracy.”

The Deluxe Edition adds three tunes, including “Forward To The Past”, “Blue Ridge” and “Glenn’s Song”, Seger’s tribute to longtime friend and Eagles cofounder Glenn Frey, who passed away in 2016 and to whom the album is dedicated to.

"It's obviously not meant to be a hit," said the singer at the time. "There's no chorus per se or title section or anything. The idea was just to honor his memory and talk, very specifically, about my impression of him in 1966 when we first met."

The pair grew up in Detroit and were part of the same local rock scene of the mid-1960s.